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TIL tiny Neolithic baby spoons indicate that new baby gruels were an important innovation in prehistoric baby-care, freeing up women to have more babies & leading to unprecedented population growth

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mkXM TIL Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ movie caused shawarma sales to SKYROCKET nationwide
O90e TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11
GAKa7 TIL that the Wii sensor bar doesn't communicate with the Wii console at all and is just LED lights powered by a cable
QjAk TIL during the medieval period, after a wedding the bride and groom were provided enough mead (honey wine) to last one full moon, coining the term ‘honeymoon’.
j6oXj TIL that in 1970 Kinks lead singer Ray Davies had to fly from America to the UK just to re-record 2 words of the song Lola. The lyrics originally contained the words Coca-Cola and using a brand name meant it was banned by the BBC. The words were changed to cherry cola.